Schwarzenegger to take a licking

Reuters News Service

Published
5:30 am CDT, Saturday, July 17, 2004

VIENNA, Austria -- Austrian fans of their famous compatriot Arnold Schwarzenegger will be able to lick the back of the California governor when his image appears on a special edition of postage stamps at the end of this month.

The former bodybuilder and film star chose the portrait of himself that will be used on one-euro stamps to be issued in Austria on his 57th birthday, July 30, a postal service spokesman said on Friday.

"He is one of the most famous Austrians...We can be very proud of him," spokesman Siegfried Grobmann said.

The stamp is a head-and-shoulders shot of Schwarzenegger with the U.S. Stars and Stripes on his right and a smaller Austrian flag to his left. A run of 600,000 stamps will be printed, Grobmann said.